How to make easy cake pops

Bake a cake following directions from the box

Let the cake cool then crumble it

Mix it with the icing (about 3/4ths of a tub for a box of cake mix)

Roll the cake/frosting into little balls - refrigerate for an hour

Melt the chocolate: I used blue wilton candy melts, in the microwave at 50% power, stirring the chocolate every 30 seconds until melted

Dip the lollipop stick into the melted chocolate and insert into the cake ball

Refrigerate about another hour

Dip the cake pop in melted chocolate

Decorate: here i used icing and sprinkles for rainbow cake pops

Another easy way to decorate is to add sugar pearls before the chocolate dries

Update: I found a melting chocolate that works a lot better than wilton - got it at Target

The process is the same but the cake pops come out a lot smoother...

and the chocolate coating is thinner, so they are sweet but not too sweet

I also used this chocolate to cover strawberries - looked good and tasted great and only took about half an hour to make about 40 start to finish